le dôme de plaisir d’hiver: The Winter Pleasure Dome.

Le Petit Versailles Garden Fall/Winter 2011-2012

le dôme de plaisir d’hiver:
The Winter Pleasure Dome

Installation by John Pavlou, Sculptor

Reading Series curated by Golda Solomon

I am building a lightweight wood-framed structure using the existing octagonal stage as a base and covering it with a translucent material. The project would will be built in November, 2011 and stay in place until March 2012. It will be “folly” in the winter garden, as well as providing a functional interior space to extend the programming of Le Petit Versailles Garden into the winter. The themes & readers of the series will be:

December 1, 2011 World AIDS Day Anton Nimblett

January 5, 2012 Tribal Consciousness Suzanne Rae Deschidn

February 9, 2012 Transitions EJ Antonio

March 1, 2012 Women's Herstory Golda Solomon

Opening Reception 12 /1/2011 - 6-8pm

< All readings begin @ 7 pm.

Le Petit Versailles 346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C

petitversailles@earthlink.net

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LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts; NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation &NYC Board of Education. Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Additional support for

le dôme de plaisir d’hiver: The Winter Pleasure Dome

is made possible by Robert Dell Vuyosevich.

Contacts: John Pavlou (914) 420-1981 jnpavlou@hotmail.com

Golda Solomon (914) 207-0477

gs@goldajazz.com

OUTSIDE IN 8

OUTSIDE IN 8

October 3 - November 6

Visiting hours Thursday – Sunday 2-7 pm.

Opening Reception BBQ  Oct. 16 @ 3pm.

An outdoor art exhibition featuring the works of

Peter Cramer

Kuki Gomez

Deborah Holcombe

Iyala Berley

Leslie Lowe

Jill London

Paul Nowell

Chev d’orange

John Pavlou

Robert Petrick

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. @ Avenue C.

212 529 8815 petitversailles@earthlink.net

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Le Petit Versailles, created in 1996, is a GreenThumb garden and a project of Allied Productions, Inc. a non-profit arts organization. LPV provides a green oasis for meditation and relaxation dedicated to fostering the interest of all segments of the community in the arts, broadening and enriching the general public through performances, screenings, workshops.

LPV events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Green Thumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts;NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Sanitation &NYC Board of Education.

Film & Exhibition support from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Obscure Society & New Vision Cinema

OBSCURE SOCIETY

September 23 Friday

6:30pm - 9:30pm.

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. @ Ave.C

http://www.alliedproductions.org

212 529 8815

“Obscure Society” will be an evening of experimental music with dance, followed by short experiemntal films/videos. Artists invited have or have not worked together in the past, and will converge for an early autumn offering. At dark, projections will begin.

Sound artists include: Jon Vomit, Dan Drogynous, Hx Khltr.

Movement: Nathan Andary, Shizu Homma, and others.

Projections by Risha Gorig, Kevin Lovelady, Meli Sanfiorenzo, and Steve Staso.

The happening begins at 6:30 with a sound and movement installation and is open for all. Admission is by donation. All ages all beings.

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New Vision Cinema Series

Curated by Michael Park

Thursday September 29^th at 8:00 PM

Le Petit Versailles, 346 east Houston Street (Lower East Side).

Continuing in the tradition of the Invisible Film Series, the New Vision Cinema Series presents a broad range of film and videos from an equally-diverse selection of cineastes. Founded in 2000 by Jennifer MacMillan as the Invisible Film Series, the New Vision Cinema Series has endeavored to showcase the talents of some of the finest local (and sometimes, not-so- local) independent film and video talents of the Greater New York City area. Since its inception, the series has shown works of such notables as Stan Brakhage, Mike Kuchar, Nick Zedd, Jennifer Reeves, and Bradley Eros. With the departure of Ms. MacMillan from its fold (a hard act to follow), the series has been under the sole curatorship of its former co-curator, Michael Park.

The New Vision Cinema Series is a short film and video series focussing on all the various genres of short film, be they experimental, narrative, animation, documentary, or even music video, and any combination thereof. Each installment of the series runs from 90 minutes -2 hours, and will include an average of ten artists works each.

September 2011

Dis-Embodied/

Re-Embodied

An exhibition by Alexis Pace

September 1-30

Opening September 1 - 6:30 -8pm.

Visiting hours

Thurs.- Sun. 2-7pm.

Alexis Pace is a NYC based artist and designer,her work often walks the thin line between the two disciplines. With a background in sculpture and education in Industrial Design (MiD from Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY) her passion for manipulation of materials in evident in all avenues of her work.

Her background in Industrial Design has inspired her to mix different materials and mediums as the inspiration dictates. Sculpture, photography, mixed media, and popsicle sticks.
Her recent experiments have been treading the line between organic decay, destruction and manipulation.

Inspired by the book “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies” by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter, this site-specific installation seeks to transform Petit Versailles into a Hanging Garden. Playing with how disembodied women’s bodies have become:dissected, rejected, mutated and recreated, this project seeks to turn the dismemberment on its head to empower both the subjects and the viewers."

www.alexispacedesign.com & http://alexispace.tumblr.com/

Thursday September 15^{th @} 7PM.

Love in the Time of AIDS.

Curated by Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center.

An evening of art,activism and advocacy. Music, film/video, community and love.

Films by

Peter Cramer, Ira Sachs, Julie Tolentino.

Art sale to benefit their Street Smart Youth Group, a leadership development program for Lower East Side homeless youth.

September 9 @ 8pm.

VOL DE NUIT

with Jessica Goldring & Lucas Tannous.

Videos by Noe Kidder.

Vol de Nuit celebrates night and nature in song and film. The music by Debussy, Bellini, Schoenberg, Schubert and Villa-lobos, among others, spans eras, musical styles and geography. Deeply romantic, in Italian, French, German and Portuguese, these songs draw the listener into the nocturnal realms, offering access to the deeper layers of the unconscious that we encounter only in dreams or flights of insanity. Vol de nuit (night flight) is a journey of the human spirit through the sky, illuminated by the stars and the moon.

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C

petitversailles@earthlink.net

http://www.alliedproductions.org

212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

STEPHANIE GRAY: HEARTS FROM NY

STEPHANIE GRAY: HEARTS FROM NY: Super 8 films of vanishing NYC

Saturday August 13th @ 8pm.

rain or shine.

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston Street between avenue b + c.

Subways; F / V to Second Ave.; J/M - Delancey Street

212.529.8815 petitversailles@earthlink.net

http://alliedproductions.org/le-petit-versailles/

NYC (Queens)-based filmmaker-poet Stephanie Gray has been making poetic super 8 films about cities since 1999 when she started filming the haunting poetry of Buffalo NY's decaying urban areas. Since moving to NYC in 2004, she has continued her exploration of the mysteries of a city and its rhythms, as well as vanishing neighborhood places, spaces and shops. This evening will feature super 8 films about NYC: some silent, some with Gray reading poetic text live. Specific locales of the films include the fading character of Hell's Kitchen and the East Village, as well films devoted to disappeared businesses, especially bakeries, such as Gertel's, Zito's, Jon Vie Pastries, Five Rose's Pizza and other portraits of the city. The evening will culminate in Gray's recent longer work You Know They Want to Disappear Hell's Kitchen As Clinton." Gray will project the films live from a super 8 projector.

Program:
MORE BREAD FOREVER (7 min, b/w, silent, 2004) The next to last day of Zito’s Bakery which closed in 2004 and as far as we know, the last we checked (or for a very long time) another business still hadn’t moved in to its space on Bleecker St.

Gertel’s galore .. lore .. ore (7 min, b/w, silent, 2007) One the last real Jewish bakeries on the Lower East Side succumbs to the unfriendly real estate market in NYC. Gray caught its next to last day. The bakery continues as a wholesaler/mail order in another borough. The sign next door for something hardware-like somehow made its way into this film. The interior of Gertel’s was dark and too crowded with people or memories to venture in. Instead, the filmmaker stayed outside to get one last memory. The building has been demolished. Gertel’s should’ve lived on. We’ll never see signs and storefronts like this again, that breathe and exhale the memories of the millions before us.

i bought the last 4 bagels at jon vie pastries (7 min, b/w+color, 2005) i did. before it closed. forever. sadly there wasn’t as much fanfare about this closure as there was about zito’s bakery closing a bit earlier in 2004. the silver
wallpaper was blinding, though.

Next to last day of Five Roses Pizza (7 min, silent, b/w 2009) I was sad about the fluorescent lights, sad about the lack of crowds, sad about the mother mary. I stared out gloomily to DeRoberti’s across the street eating my pizza.

magic shoes (7 min, silent, color, 2008) One of the last days of Magic Shoes, you know you saw it there on Bleecker, but did you ever by Knee Hi Converse? Maybe you should've.

Storefronts before other storefronts (7 min, silent, b/w, 2008) You’ll note some of these storefronts are alerted already and you get the feeling, you wonder, how much longer will they be here? The Launderette letters are gone.

hearts in new york (3 min, silent, color, 2006) Finding all the hearts in early Feb that I can for a valentine’s project, but instead, finding hearts that are up year-round. There’s plenty. At least one of these shops you see is gone.

After Doing My Taxes Around Here (3 min, silent, color, 2006) My all time favorite wall mural disappeared some time after I shot this. Was it your favorite, too? WHY? And if you take out one letter, it all relates subliminally to taxes.

governor’s island (7 min, silent, color, 2005) You wonder how much of what could now be called “old” Governor’s Island will stay up while it becomes a new spiffy art destination. What will we lose?

YOU KNOW THEY WANT TO DISAPPEAR HELL'S KITCHEN AS CLINTON (17 min, b/w + color, 2010, live sound) In mysterious insistent shots, Gray films an inspired letter of sorts to writer E.B. White, author of the midcentury infamous Here is New York essay. The sound is a mix of the filmmaker’s voiceover, bits of poetic prose prefaced by, and inspired by quotes from White. Interspersed are reverbed lines from a 60s surf song New York's a Lonely Town. She treats this letter as a film essay of old and disappearing Hell's Kitchen which developers have been trying to rename Clinton for years. Maybe that should be Hell's Clinton, or Clinton's Hell.

TRT ca 1 hr 15 min.

Garrin Benfield

Garren Benfield in concert!

Saturday August 6 @ 8pm.

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C>

petitversailles@earthlink.net

http://www.alliedproductions.org 212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

"Garrin Benfield is a busy, busy fellow, splitting his time between NY and SF and continuing to enrich the music scene of both cities. He's no stranger to Acoustic Sunrise - Rosalie has been onto him for years - but it's the new song 'Walkin' Time Blues' that offers us a delicious slice of San Francisco." - Renee Richardson, KFOG Radio, SF CA.

Benfield's shows center on his quirky pop melodies but are stretched by Garrin into improvisational explorations into new territory each night. Familiar songs are often twisted and contorted into gorgeous new creations that leave audiences breathless. At once organic and eclectic, Garrin's shows are an experience as much as they are a musical concert! Utilizing electronic effects and a loop station, audiences find themselves grooving to atmospheric rhythms and settling back into Benfield's soothing vocal style. When the whole band is cooking, Benfield seamlessly blends his compositional skills with his improvisational ones, making old songs seem new. His thought-provoking lyrics and orchestral arrangements are constantly refurbished but are never over-shadowed by the endless noodling characterized by many in the neighboring jam-Band genre.

Department of Transformation - July 2-30

Fame and Shame in the Lower East Side

Queer Performance Film Music Dance

July 2-30th

Every Saturday in July.

PERFORMANCES @ 8PM.

Le Petit Versailles

346 East Houston St. < Avenue B & C>

petitversailles@earthlink.net

http://www.alliedproductions.org 212 529 8815

Subway: F/V- Second Ave. - J/M/F- Delancey/Essex

RAIN OR SHINE

DONATIONS REQUESTED!

http://www.departmentoftransformation.org/home/

july 2: Quito Ziegler & friends: an evening of film, music and dance

This weekend features the World Premiere of: THE DREAM OF WILD PONIES DANCING (2011)

The Dream of Wild Ponies Dancing documents the wild ponies of the night in their natural habitat. In the quiet deep green of a sandy midnight forest, four wild ponies recognize each other as kin and develop a sense of connection and family. Half human, all beast, the ponies run free on a mystical adventure through the dunes, arriving to a deserted beach as gray dawn breaks. The movement is captured silently in super-grainy black and white super-8 film, presented with original score by Princess Tiny & the Meats. More about this event. Info on the artist is here.

july 9 : Heather Ács ~ this is what we have…

Sometimes what we have is not enough. Sometimes what we have is far too much… Solo performance artist Heather Acs will create something out of nothing to bring you an astronomical evening of storytelling, music, magic, and theatre that needs no stage.

You don’t need to be famous, you don’t need to be rich, dreamin’ is free. Enjoy an intergalactic exploration of adventures, interconnectivity & the story of stardust. Sometimes what we have, is just right.

JULY 16: justin sayre

Justin Sayre ~ The Gorgon Approaches

The evening will consist of a one act play called The Gorgon Approaches, a treatise on sex, human nature, and oblivion as seen through the eyes of two 19th century British school boys at the seaside. This evening will be shared with the first two movements from from “The Boy Sonata,” on the tumultuous life of a small southern boy at different ages. All the pieces are dealing with Innocence lost and gained.

july 23: prof speedwagon

Professor Speedwagons Presents: This is the way the world ends

In 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying the city of Pompeii. In 526 AD, a giant earthquake ripped apart Syria and Antioch. In 1556, an earthquake flattened the Shaanxi Province of China. In 1893, a cyclone sent water all the way up Manhattan to 14th Street. In 1962, a volcano erupted in Peru. In 2005, a storm surge drowned New Orleans. In 2011, one brave professor and her band of clowns will attempt to make sense of it all.

july 30: ptm + blaise

Princess Tiny & the Meats ~ Confessions of a Love Sick Teenager: Chronicles of a Young Boy Witch presented with costumes and fashion by Blaise

“Confessions of a Love Sick Teenager” is a gothic fairy tale of unrequited love written by Princess Tiny and the Meats. In this piece they explore what it means to hold on to love thru the darkest time in ones life. In this story love materializes itself through the most beautiful creature that had ever lived and the courtship that never did. Written six months into their transition, this story manifests into a tale about gaining confidence from a place so deep inside and in turn finding out that it never mattered because that place was already dead. Moved by theater and classic costuming, PTM takes you through this journey with Shakespearean style love poems that will melt your heart and gut wrenching songs that rip it apart. All to make you feel as they did… once upon a time… in a not so far and distant land.

+ Look forward to dazzling costumery by Blaise to complete this fairy tale!